In today’s competitive job market, securing a role in database management is difficult. SQL (Structured Query Language) remains a fundamental skill for database administrators, software developers, ...

Lightweight library for working with high performance bulk updates & materialized data in SQL Server with support for Identity columns, Annotations, Materialization from disparate systems, etc.

Whether you’re an experienced DBA with multiple certifications or just starting on your SQL Server DBA journey, you face challenges constantly for putting your organization’s data to work. To turn the ...

I found this issue on Stack Overflow. While troubleshooting it I realized the Sql Server state store only creates the table but not the database. So if you use a connection string that points to a ...

Microsoft rolled out Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server in full release on Wednesday. The service has been running in preview for some time but is now coming to all end users. Included in the ...

In the following article we will go through a solution to a very common requirement of removing delete duplicate rows from SQL server table. Let us first create a table and add sample data to this ...

With the release of SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) and the commercial release of Visual Studio 2013, we are excited to announce new preview releases of SQL Server Data Tools to ...